Gaoping

See also: gāopíng and Gāopíng

English

Alternative forms

• Kao-p'ing (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 高平 (Gāopíng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: gouʹpǐngʹ

Proper noun

Gaoping

1. A county-level city in Jincheng, Shanxi, China.
   • [1973, Rewi Alley, “New Life of a 3,000-year-old City and Its Surroundings”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[2], volume XII, number 3, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 1:

     Interlude at Kaoping
     We left Tsincheng early one morning for Changchih County and drove first to Kaoping where we halted for a while to see a modern silk weaving and dyeing factory set up in 1960 there, which by 1971 was producing 1,850,000 metres of woven and dyed material, with a value of 4,200,000 yuan.
     Kaoping I had known in the past as a famous place for its pears, which are especially juicy.]

   • [1976, Sidney L. Greenblatt, editor, The People of Taihang‎^[3], White Plains, NY: International Arts and Sciences Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 110, 196:

     Feng Ying-ts’e is a native of Chi-t’an Village, Kao-p’ing hsien, Shansi Province, and a member of San-chia People’s Commune there.[...]Under the Party's direction, she was involved in communication and liaison missions in the border area of the three hsien of Chin-ch’eng, Ling-ch’uan, and Kao-p’ing.]

   • 1995 October 31, “Archaeologists Find Remains of Soldiers Buried Alive 2,000 Years Ago”, in AP News‎^[4], archived from the original on 17 March 2023‎^[5]:

     But it said the pit dates to the cruelest military campaign of the Warring States period of 476 to 221 B.C. When commander Zhao Kuo was killed, 300,000 of his troops surrendered to rival Qin forces. All were buried alive.
     The pit was discovered in Gaoping, a city 350 miles southwest of Beijing in central China’s Shaanxi^{[sic – meaning Shanxi]} province.

   • 2014 May 1, Zhang Hong, “More Shanxi officials investigated for corruption”, in South China Morning Post‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 May 2014, China‎^[7]:

     More senior officials from Shanxi are under investigation for alleged corruption, the latest in a series of anti-graft probes focused on the coal-rich province.
     The government's anti-corruption investigation department said yesterday that the mayor of Gaoping, Yang Xiaobo, and the deputy head of the work committee for the provincial Communist Party, Guo Zhongshi, were accused of "serious violations of discipline", a term often used to describe graft.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 高平 (zh) (Gāopíng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Gaoping”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1317, column 1